Assembly Bill A3631

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides administrative remedy for persons whose vehicle is wrongfully towed

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A3631 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §241-a, add §241-c, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4211
2011-2012: A4388
2013-2014: A3307
2015-2016: A2794
2019-2020: A3507
2021-2022: A915
2023-2024: A714

2017-A3631 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides recourse for a person whose vehicle was wrongfully towed in a city with a population of one million or more against the parking violations bureau in such city or the responsible agent of such bureau by granting such person the right to appear before a panel of administrative law judges which shall be empowered to order the correction of records, the refund of any fee paid to release the wrongfully towed vehicle and the reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses, including lost wages; defines the term "wrongful tow."

2017-A3631 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3631
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. CARROLL, ORTIZ, DINOWITZ, DenDEKKER, WEPRIN --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, AUBRY, COLTON,  GLICK,  HOOPER,
   TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to wrongful
   towing

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 241-a of the
 vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter 338 of the laws of 1987, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) Every city with a population of more than one million  inhabitants
 that has established a parking violations bureau shall establish, within
 such  bureau, a properly staffed complaint unit of public service repre-
 sentatives to respond to complaints from any person  who,  after  having
 satisfied,  by payment, adjudication, or administrative action, any fine
 or penalty for a parking violation or after having proven that a fine or
 penalty was wrongfully imposed on this person,  receives  a  demand  for
 payment  of  the  fine  or  penalty  previously  satisfied or wrongfully
 imposed, [or] is denied any registration or renewal application  by  the
 department  of  motor  vehicles  upon  a certification from such parking
 violations bureau based upon lack of payment  of  any  fine  or  penalty
 previously  satisfied  or  wrongfully  imposed OR WHOSE VEHICLE HAS BEEN
 WRONGFULLY TOWED AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED BY SECTION TWO  HUNDRED  FORTY-
 ONE-C  OF  THIS  ARTICLE.    The  complaint  unit established under this
 section shall accept complaints either in person or by  certified  mail,
 return  receipt  requested.  Each written demand for payment, other than
 the first demand following issuance of the notice  of  violation,  shall
 advise  the  addressee  of  the  existence of the complaint unit and the
 procedure for submitting a complaint. Upon receipt of a complaint, if in
 person, or within ten work days after receipt of a complaint if by mail,
 the complaint unit shall acknowledge receipt in writing and  notify  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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